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From Columbia's game notes:Today's game is presented by Turismo Chile, the official sponsor of Columbia's Homecoming.Dartmouth's Homecoming was last week and even without Turismo Chile's help it was a good time in Hanover:
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Harvard-Princeton is the game of the week as chosen by The Sports Network, which picks Princeton to come out on top, 31-28. (LINK)TSN picks Datmouth to defeat Columbia as well as:
Brown over Cornell
Yale over Penn
UNH over Stony Brook
Lafayette over Holy Cross
Wagner over Central Connecticut State
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Previewing the Penn-Yale game one week after the Quakers earned their first victory by defeating Columbia, the Daily Pennsylvanian blog asks, Did Saturday's win turn around Penn football's outlook? (LINK) From the story:If Big Green quarterback Dalyn Williams had made one fewer heroic play in leading Dartmouth back in the fourth quarter, then we’d be talking about a Yale team undefeated in the league and holding a win over Army.
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The Harvard Crimson has a story (LINK) under the headline, Beyond the Silver Screen;As the Ivy League Digital Network eyes expansion in its second year, a question has arisen: how does the network balance its revenue-bearing identity with its self-prescribed objective of increasing student viewership?
A tip from BGA, free of charge ;-) With few exceptions students don't go to games, even when they can get in for free, so you don't need a Harvard MBA to see it's silly to charge students for a subscription if you want them to start watching online.
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Former Dartmouth interim president Carol Folt landed in a hornet's nest as chancellor at the University of North Carolina. The Charlotte Observer has a lengthy look at the problems in Chapel Hill HERE. There's a Q&A regarding the sports impact of the findings HERE.
From the Daily Tar Heel (LINK):
It was all a lie.
After years of questions and insufficient responses, Wednesday’s press conference gave the final answer.
It was an athletic scandal — a scheme devised, ultimately, by an administrative assistant and the former chairman of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. The two were asked by the athletic teams’ academic counselors to keep athletes eligible to play. They were desperate to help students who struggled to adapt to UNC’s rigorous academics.
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From that to this. Your feel-good moment of the day.
A friend of BGA sent along a LINK to a video about blind long-snapper Jake Olson at Orange Lutheran High School in California (which send defensive back Jordan Greenwood to Dartmouth). ESPN has a longer, touching report about the young man that flashes back to the first piece it did with him, one that I remember brought a tear to my eye:
